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A managed services program (MSP) handles the complex daily staffing operations for healthcare providers who focus on providing the best patient care experience and outcomes. Without an MSP, healthcare organizations face constant challenges when filling temporary staffing needs. First, they must aggregate and prioritize demand in their facilities. Second, they must recruit and manage numerous staffing vendors—all with different contracts,…

A vendor management system (VMS) guarantees the quality of your contingent labor. It is an application that acts as a mechanism for businesses to manage and procure staffing services. A VMS can facilitate the recruitment process, track candidates, consolidate billing, and help make significant enhancements in reporting. If staff members are not using your VMS, they may have a deleterious…

The manual ‘paper and pen’ process used to manage supplemental staf ng created inef ciencies that led to cost overruns and employee dissatisfaction. The medical center concluded the manual system was not sustainable. View the PDF of the Case Study

When managers mention that they find lower quality in contingent workers compared to their regular staff, it is not necessarily a competency issue, but often a shortfall in how the temporary workers were onboarded. Health systems with a standard on boarding or orientation practice tend to ensure quality is better maintained. View PDF of Wise Paper

A Dallas, TX THA (Texas Hospital Association) member was having an array of dif culties with their contingent workforce. The 800+bed organization that provides care to over 1 million patients annually was struggling to efficiently manage multiple vendors and couldn’t successfully handle their orders in a timely matter and paying high fees to their vendors. View a PDF of the Case…